Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	3.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 06 '18 at 15:13
Run Duration	1796 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600-$89 39,689 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 88.1 1-Core 126 2-Core 248 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 395 57% 417 Pts	64-Core 370 23% 370 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 82%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 6GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5007 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 116 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 54 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1047181424	111% Outstanding	Read 460 Write 410 Mixed 422 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 91.5 4K Mixed 48.4 172% 60.1 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 130 149% 258 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2GB free Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 34894 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 620 (B1) Unknown 93 93 81 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 185 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17032969887	86.5% Excellent	Read 493 Write 281 Mixed 313 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 71.1 4K Mixed 23.2 125% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 68.1 111% 216 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 108%
Marshal 3TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2TB free Firmware: 0127 Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	23.9% Poor	Read 41.7 Write 41 Mixed 39.5 31% 40.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 23.9% Great: 93%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 87914824 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4689 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 4747320323 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 32633 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 613 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 70 70 30 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 60 44 451745808424 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 219 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34316 (C2) HDA temperature 40 56 -140737488355288 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 117699283801979 (F1) Unknown 100 253 128242019547 (F2) Unknown 100 253 97840055888	81.7% Excellent	Read 166 Write 119 Mixed 142 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.21 70% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 114%
Hitachi HDS721075CLA332 750GB-$190 3,719 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 39GB free Firmware: JP3OA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 86 86 2818178 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 117 (03) Spinup time 120 120 25790644539 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 14554 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 25 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 140 30 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 60628 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 977 (C0) Power-off retract count 88 88 15419 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 15419 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 257699282982 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 28 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	48.4% Average	Read 71.5 Write 97.3 Mixed 92.1 66% 87 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.3 78% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 76%
WD Elements 10B8 500GB 1,821 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 374GB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	17.8% Very poor	Read 40 Write 29.7 Mixed 33.7 43% 34.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.21 69% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 17.8% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.5% Average	MC Read 15 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 13.6 41% 14.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 14.5 SC Mixed 15 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 69.4 58% 69.4 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 95%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 - $192

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	486x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	113x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	83x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	33x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	23x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $757

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16